"Mentally, I don’t feel like I’m missing anything. I don’t think that in two weeks or a month I’ll have to start all over again. I’m simply trying to figure out what my life will be like now."
These were the words of the Catalan coach Pep Guardiola, in an interview with the cryptocurrency trading company Okx, thus ruling out a return to the bench in the short term, even though his name had been mentioned as a possible candidate to coach Italy.
Among the reasons that led him to take a break and leave Manchester City were "taking a bit of care of myself, spending much more time with my children, my father who is 95 and still here, my sisters, my brother."
In the future, "we’ll see if I miss it, and if someone wants me I’ll come back, otherwise I’ll keep going like this. I’m not young anymore, I’m not 35 or 37 or 40-41, I’m already 56, so my perspective will be a bit different."
According to Guardiola, "the only thing I know how to do is play football or coach. So why not try to discover a new life, to be happy, to be fulfilled as a human being by doing other things, not just those related to football?
"I’ll try to enjoy other things I’ve never done before and will do, and we’ll see what happens."